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My book for #January #USPresidents #Washington came today. I am excited to read this; I have always been intrigued by Arnold‘s about face. #NF
#12Booksof2025 #Day11 #memoir #Day12 #NF
#Naturalitsy
Thank you so much @TheEllieMo for hosting this! I enjoyed seeing others‘ book choices- oh, no! #blameitonlitsy
There is an ethereal, misty, dream-like quality to these poems, of the sublime and the ordinary. #Day10 #poetry #12Booksof2025
OMG I have not woken up this early since 12/10/25! This will be a HUGE challenge & quite the sight!
The author returns to her childhood home on the Orkney Islands to recover from her insidious London years of self destructive alcoholism.Here in a last desperate act, she hopes to finally heal. #NF #memoir #nonfiction2026
pickThis first in a series is set during the early 1100s at a Benedictine monastery that borders Wales.The Welsh Br.Cadfael,came to his vows late in life after fighting in the Crusades,mastering a ship,& travels around the world.Now he‘s content to tend his vegetable & medicinal herb garden.But he‘s required by the Abbey to go on a mission with other monks to retrieve the bones of Saint Winifred from a Welsh town where she is buried.Mayhem & Murder…
Mid afternoon cappuccino & a book. I go back to work tomorrow so this is my last hurrah!
For whatever reason I slept in late. Have to finish ch 6-8 then will join in the discussion. Using my gold spoon to stir my coffee & state my days intention.
Loss is the tune of our age,hard to miss and hard to bear.Creatures,places and words disappear,day after day, year on year.But there has always been singing in dark times –and wonder is needed now more than ever.‘To enchant‘ means both to make magic and to sing out.So let these spells ring far and wide;speak their words, and seek their art, let the wild world into your eyes, your voice, your heart. #naturalitsy #wintersolace
Loving this book,⬇️
This is a book of spells to be spoken aloud.It tells its stories and sings it songs in paint and word.Here you will find incantations and summoning charms,spells that protect and spells the protest,tongue-twisters, blessings,lullabies,and psalms.Here you might swoop with a swallow, follow a seal through the sea or sky-race with swifts.Here you can listen owl ears and watch with the eyes of an oak.#naturalitsy #beautybreak #wintersolace #endpapers
Went to pick up my pre-order (tagged) at my local indie bookstore, Riverbend Bookshop. Of course I just had to support them so Suleika Japuad‘s book & journal somehow slipped into my bag as well!
1) sunset this evening
2) New Year‘s Day dinner cooked by my husband with ham, mac & cheese,& collard greens & hoppin‘ John for a year of good luck
3) January hopefuls 😂😂
4) Trip to NYC via train to Morgan Library & Museum for Renoir exhibit
5) special golden spoon for stirring that first coffee of the day 3x clockwise while stating my positive intentions for the day
#fridayhappyreadinghour #serieslove2026
Winding up a busy day with this book & fizzy water.
mcctrish, melissajayne, Aims42, ChasingOm, TheBookHippie, guinsgirlreads, Susanita, Tamra, Cathythoughts, BarbaraBB, Ruthiella, TheEllieMo, dabbe
My son‘s cousin gifted this book to him for Jolabokaflod ( we match names with all those sibs & cousins who want to participate). This will be one of my NF books- my goal for 2026 is to try & read one per month -or at least 6 for the year.
Amiable, JenlovesJT47, Tamra, JessClark78, monalyisha, dabbe, ImperfectCJ, julieclair, AnnCrystal, uncommonlycozies
#choosejoy
Sometimes the simplest actions can become a ritual for inviting positivity and uplifted energy into our lives. Use this teaspoon for your morning coffee or tea, stirring it three times in a clockwise motion and stating your intention for the day.
Blessed Be.
the Bell and Raven
New Year‘s resolution: choose joy.
#choosejoy #Celebrate #Titlebasedonasong #OdetoJoy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=V_XbLKg0Bsg&feature=shared
https://youtu.be/zGi2skojQEc
#beautybreak
Hoppin' John black eyed peas after an overnight soak. Yes, there is beauty in those black eyes looking up at me! Hoppin‘ John & collard greens accompany our New Year‘s Day dinner, a sign of luck in the coming year. A tradition passed down from my husband‘s New Orleans born & bred mother.
Amiable, JenlovesJT47, Tamra, JessClark78, monalyisha, dabbe, ImperfectCJ, AnnCrystal, uncommonlycozies
#2025Stats
My goal was 200 books which I surpassed with 249 books read. I am aiming to read at least 6 non-fiction books.
Happy 2026! Here‘s to a better year, A better world. Cheers!
Daily Christmas Days (Winterson) readings.Today‘s was “The Second Best Bed, another ghostly tale with time travel to the 1800s to the Williamson‘s farm.The tale includes the farm‘s icehouse. #walledup #skeletons
Last line felt like it came out of nowhere!
“My grandmother was a Williamson.” #shivers #chinesedumplings
Holmes: #3, “The Tree Henchman,”It‘s1885 & Holmes is dead.Mycroft hears the”Colonel” is out to kill Watson & his wife.#kidnapping ⬇️
A celebration for New Year‘s Eve, welcoming the turn to a New Year.
From:
The Book Lover‘s Almanac
Year of Wonder
A Tree a Day
https://youtu.be/jE0KWxqG5yg
“Your kind never sees us whole.You miss the half of
it and more. There‘s always as much belowground
as above…If you mind were only a slightly greener
thing, we‘d drown you in meaning”(362).
——- from The Overstory, Richard Powers
#naturalitsy #wintersolace
#ATreeaDay
#top25of25
These books are in no particular order- This was fun to reflect back on such good reads!
My Book of the Year, 2025: Things in Nature Merely Grow
-The Frozen River- Historical Fiction
-Sandwich - F
- Memorial Days - memoir
- Witness-NF
- North Woods -F
- Wild Dark Shore-F
- The Ravine -NF
- Whale Fall -F
- I Seek a Kind Person -NF
- Occasional Grace - poetry
- Things in Nature Merely Grow - memoir
#ReadingBracket2025 #MyBookoftheYear
January hopefuls…most probably some will go into February, especially as I will be back at work nect Monday.
#JamesBaldwinsAmerica #libraryfind #JoeSwallowSeries #4 #AmericasMostFamousLibarian #BelleGreene #Proust #literaryCrew #BoicesfromOldForfarshireScotland #ANovelofSuspense #Camplitsy #ThreePines #Gamache #SundayBuddyRead #USPresidents #Washington #Camplitsy
“Sometimes the simplest actions can become a ritual for inviting positivity and uplifted energy into our lives. Use this teaspoon for your morning, coffee or tea, stirring it three times in a clockwise motion, and stating your intention for the day ahead,
Blessed be.”
#bookmail #libraryholds #theBellandRaven
#ChristmasDays12Storiesand12Feastsfor12Days
Day 6 O‘Brien‘s First Christmas #fairy #stars #change
Dad‘s Sherry Trifle #forgiveness
Morning coffee & cranberry orange Irish soda bread.
pickI hated to end of this novel!Assistant curator of Egyptology,Dr. Lauren Westlake,is in the process of creating an exhibit on Egyptian artifacts including the mummified Hetsumina.So much of the interior settings in the MET are familiar to me which enhanced my reading experience.”Egyptomania”was at the apex in the City after King Tut‘s tomb was discovered.Enter DI Joe Caravello who joins forces with Lauren to uncover a plethora of forgeries.Deceit⬇️
Day 3: Dark Christmas #creepy
Day 4: Christmas in New York #HartCrane #Theresallofnextyear
Day 5: The Mistletoe Bride #retribution
#12Storiesand12Feastsfor12days
So these Christmas stories are certainly not all hearts & flowers which is what I expected. A pleasant surprise!
#12Booksof2026
#day4 April : Memorial Days #memoir
#day5 May: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt #graphicnovel #biography
pickHeartbreaking, riveting, with multilayered characters, elegant writing.The price of justice.Unveiling of dark secrets, 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
War criminal & general based on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdravko_Tolimir
There is a rotunda,off of which is Morgan‘s library, his office, his vault, & what was once Belle Greene‘s office. Now besides books,her office is filled with artifacts from various Morgan collections.The ceilings in all these rooms are gorgeous.
#hyggehourreadathon
Mesmerized by this book/catalog of the exhibit we saw today: Renoir Drawings
Accompanied by hot cinnamon milk.
Seeing Renoir‘s progression from drawings to a painting allowed for a richer understanding of his works,be they in charcoal,pencil,chalk,water color,oils.
1) study for The Great Bathers,black chalk on graphite paper, 1886. From Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT.
2) study for The Great Bathers,red & black chalk with white chalk highlights on paper mounted to canvas, 1886.from Musee d‘Orsay, Paris
3) The Great Bathers, oil on canvas,⬇️
Lunch- mine was gnocchi marsala; the men had steak sandwiches au jus with horseradish mayo. A little prosecco, a little red wine,some tea. Delicious!
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